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Ferrero Focused ©Reuters / A.Pierdomenico

Janko Tipsarevic won the support of Wimbledon spectators with his five-set victory over fifth seed Fernando Gonzalez but was unable to produce that form against Juan Carlos Ferrero. He lost to the 20th seed, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5).

The number two Serb (behind Novak Djokovic) had achieved his best performance in a grand slam to reach the fourth round but he was no match for the Spaniard

The 27-year-old Ferrero opened the match with an ace, and threw down three in his first game. Tipsarevic matched this with two aces and a demon drop shot. In total, 28 aces were played, 14 each. Before today’s match Ferrero was fifth in the aces’ leaderboard for The Championships. He will have moved up a couple of places after this performance.

In the first set, the players' early rallies won shouts of "vamos" from the players’ bench and cries of delight from the crowd. It was a close contest but Ferrero made the crucial break, gaining three break points on the Serb’s serve. Tipsarevic then made a loose return to lose the set.

Tipsarevic is ranked 46 places below Ferrero and although he is working his way rapidly up those rankings, it is the Spaniard who has a better form-book. He was the world number one in 2003, shortly after he won the French Open.

Ferrero made an early break in the second set as Tipsarevic’s composure began to disintegrate. The Serb was hitting too many shots long, or into the net. He made three times as many unforced errors as Ferrero in this set and looked a little despondent when serving at 2-5. Although he held serve, Ferrero wasted no time closing out the set.

A similar pattern unfolded in the third. Ferrero shifted up a gear in the crucial seventh game. He worked his way to two break points, converting one with a precisely positioned backhand crosscourt drive.

Tipsarevic rallied a little to force a tiebreak but it was to no avail. Throughout the match, he was never able to regain the inspired tennis he showed in the previous round. He crumbled on the sole crunch point in the tiebreak to lose the match.

Ferrero has been an impressively consistent performer for a while. He finished the 2006 season in the top 25 rankings for the sixth time in the past seven years. And with this win the Spaniard moves into new territory – it is the first time he has reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon. His opponent will be Roger Federer.

Written by Sally Easton

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Federer Backhand ©Propaganda / D.Rawcliffe

Despite the worst that Atlantic depressions and rain-laden south-westerlies have been able to inflict on its manicured acres, The Championships' singles competitions are beginning to sort out the wheat from the chaff in readiness for the second week when, as the players repeatedly assure us, it's a whole new ball game.

Still fronting the parade is the man with the white charger and designer battledress, Roger Federer, playing brilliantly and talking a good game too. Having come through two rounds without dropping a set, the world number one and four-time Wimbledon champion is alert to the imminent need to hurdle an obstacle of some stature. Or then again, since that hurdle is called Marat Safin, perhaps not.

Though the Russian has won only two of their nine matches he has held the Grand Slams of the United States and Australia, and as Federer cautioned, "He's someone who can upset anybody on any day. I hope he's not going to have one of those crazy good days against me". One of those "crazy good days" was his straight-sets drubbing of Pete Sampras in the 2000 US Open final, after which stupendous things were predicted of the Spain-based Safin. Somehow, they never quite materialised because of injury and loss of form. But you know why Federer is correct to be apprehensive. A soaring Safin can be unstoppable.

The Russian’s distaste for grass court tennis, coupled with Federer's unparalleled skill on the surface – 50 matches unbeaten on all grass courts and 30 in a row at Wimbledon – offer an indication of how the tie is expected to pan out. The third match on Centre Court is guaranteed to be an intriguing occasion, however. After all with Marat, you never know…

If the reigning champion does succeed in swatting Safin aside, he could run into Marat's Davis Cup team mate Dmitry Tursunov, provided the latter can get the better of Germany's Tommy Haas.

Tursunov's blogging skills are the delight of the ATP website but it is as a pesky destroyer of seeded opponents and higher reputations at Grand Slams that he is feared. Just ask Tim Henman. Dmitry, who has spent a large part of his life in California since he was 12 and has a home in Folsom, the town whose prison Johnny Cash sang about,
regularly does well at Wimbledon and he was a semi-finalist at the recent Queen's Club tournament. Having beaten him three times out of four, Haas appears to have Tursunov's measure but this will be their first tangle on turf.

Serbia stands tall in the tennis world right now, thanks to the deeds of Novak Djokovic on the men's tour and Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic on the women's. Top tenners all. Now let's welcome another rising star with a delightful moniker, Janko Tipsarevic. Here is a character who carries a tattoo on his left arm quoting one of his favourite authors, Fyodor Dostoevsky: "Beauty will save the world" it says. Hard work helps, too, as Janko knows having played a part in resurrecting tennis in his homeland from what he called "mud" following the Balkan war years.

There ought to be plenty of hard work for him today in the Centre Court opener against Fernando Gonzalez, the Chilean whose career has been on an upward curve since recruiting American coach Larry Stefanki last year. He had a marvellous Australian Open in January until running up against Federer in the final and also in the Artois Championships at Queen's a fortnight ago, where Gonzalez edged Tipsarevic in a tight three-setter featuring two tie-breaks.

Two of America’s Davis Cup stalwarts, Andy Roddick and James Blake, are motoring along nicely in Federer's half of the draw. Neither has yet dropped a set and both will be hopeful of advancing past Spanish opposition. Ninth-seeded Blake will face Juan Carlos Ferrero, the 2003 French Open champion who was the biggest cheese in Spain until a certain Rafael Nadal breezed into town. Juan Carlos, named after his country’s monarch, is a solid but not outstanding performer at Wimbledon, so this should be Blake's day.

The same goes for Roddick, who can of course count on advice from his coach, two-time Wimbledon winner Jimmy Connors. His opponent today on No.1 Court, immediately after Blake-Ferrero, will be Fernando Verdasco, a 23-year-old six-foot left-hander whose parents own a restaurant in Madrid. It is hard to see Roddick, shaky though he has been at times this week, ending up as Verdasco's dish of the day.

The progress of the women's number one seed, Justine Henin, continues to be a mixture of the regal and the routine. The latest to be required to offer the quadruple French Open champion more than a mild work-out is Russian 20-year-old Elena Vesnina, a resident of the Russian resort of Sochi which is bidding to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. They met at Roland Garros in the first round last month, where Elena managed to win all of seven games.

Third seed Jelena Jankovic, with just four games conceded in two rounds, is making good progress and will fancy her chances of continuing to do so against the 20-year-old Czech Lucie Safarova, while two-time champion Serena Williams is hitting hard and accurately enough to menace anyone in that part of the draw. Like Henin, she played today's opponent, Milagros Sequera of Spain, at the French Open and won in straight sets. Henin and Serena still seem on course for a quarter-final collision, but as we have already heard, next week is a whole new ball game…

Written by Ronald Atkin

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